Where: Greenland (74.4° N, 22.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° S, 48.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bastion Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• SPECIFIC COMMENTS: Collection is from near the middle of the Bastion Formation. Lumped collections from same horizon, including GGU 314935-36.

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•GENERAL COMMENTS: The Kloftelv Formation is overlain by the fossiliferous Bastion and Ella Island foramtions, both of middle Dyerian age (late Early Camrbian, equivalent of the Botomian). The Ella Island Formation (100 m thick) is mainlyy limestone and calcareous sandstone and is overlain by essentially unfossiliferous dolomites of the Hyolithus Creek and Dolomite Point formations, spanning the rest of the Cambrian Period.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve,

• Rock samples were dissolve in buffered 10 percent acetic acid to retrieve acid-resistent microfossils. The resulting residues were sieved and the heavy mineral fraction separated using sodium polytungstate. All specimens are housed in the Geological Museum in Copenhagen (MGUH)

Primary reference: C. B. Skovsted and L.E. Holmer. 2005. Early Cambrian brachiopods from north-east Greenland. Palaeontology 48(2):325-345 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49472: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.04.2005

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